The National tribune., 1887-03-31
RECENT LITERATURE.
MOTHER BICKERDYKE. BY Margaret B.
Davis. San Francisco: A. T. Dewey, 252 Market
street. 81.


MOTHER BICKERDYKE. By Margaret B.
Davis. San Francisco; A. T. Dewey, 252 Market
street. ST..
No one Of that host of tender-hearted women
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than Mary A. Bickerdyke. Such is the united
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For years her heroic labOrs received no recOg-
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transmitting TO the homes Of the living the
last words OF their brave dead The book con-
taius fine portrait Of this noble woman
whose memory is so dear to the soldiers.
KNAPsACK AND RIFLE; OR, LIFE IN THE
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This excellent volume presents vivid pict-
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THE CLOSING SCENE BY Thomas Buchanan
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